Who We Are
We are your internal recruitment team that can expand or contract right along with your organization's hiring needs over time. We provide the highest level of expertise in talent acquisition and organizational growth strategy from seed/angel investment to early series stage companies with the intent of being the bridge from day 1, to hiring a dedicated Talent Acquisition team.
Chris Kale
Founder/Principal
Expertise:
Full ownership of Executive, Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, Product, Marketing and Business talent acquisition.
Industry expertise: Innovative consumer, platform and enterprise technology
15 years direct experience building engineering teams (Seed->Series D->Public)
Ex: Rapid7 (RPD) Series A-B, Scopely Seed - Series C, Facebook (FB) Public, Calm Series A - Series B, Hadrian Automation Series A.
Why choose us?
Our mission is to provide seed and early stage organizations a variety of scalable solutions to inform, advise and execute a growth strategy built on proven talent acquisition best practices gained over years of actual experience.
We’ve Been There
How to hire the best people is a skillset honed over time through repetition like any other skill. Our diverse and extensive experience is the driving force that helps your organization objectively identify, assess, acquire and develop best in class talent across functions in the short and long term.
Systematic & Scaleable
Our solutions are designed to work cross functionally across any team or department allowing the entire organization to focus on what they do best. When we design a new process or training, we construct it as a modular framework to apply organizationally with the ability to adjust it seamlessly as your organization evolves.
Data Informed
The capturing and utilization of data, insights and reporting are critical across a modern organization and recruiting is no different. It is not something we avoid or hide from nor do we allow the raw data to make decisions for us as a crutch. We measure and analyze our strategies by default with full transparency and regularity to share with our partners to both forecast and measure our performance.
Diverse by Default
Diversity is not simply a metric but a mentality. A diverse team and organization is a key determinant for success across society, industries and companies alike. From the moment it is time to make your first hire, diversity should be discussed as often as funnel metrics or active pipeline. Just as you might discuss diversity in potential customers, verticals, revenue or product offerings, it is essential to start with a look inward before reaching outward. Diverse teams beget more diverse talent leading to an ever increasing pool of different approaches that may be the key to solving the unknown unknowns that lie ahead.
A Focus on the Immediate
We maintain focus on executing on the immediate needs of the organization, while aware of the upcoming turns, dips, mountains to climb in mind. The easiest way to get out of a hole is to avoid it all together and through our decade plus of experience, we keep your organization a step ahead to avoid costly mistakes frequently made in the earliest days of an organization's growth.
Railways not Roadblocks
We aim to get to “yes” instead of saying something is “not possible”. We believe in reasonably adapting our methods and strategy to your current process and needs where appropriate, while simultaneously providing our expertise when needed. We aim to seamlessly plug into your team while serving as an added expert to ensure you make the best hiring and growth planning decisions for the future years to come.